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Ways to Be is a rather passionate appeal from an experienced old timer to young people and their parents to be or become smoke free. The author uses plain talk and lots of logic in effort to convince the reader that the only reasonable way to is smoke free. Many arguments are brought up, including the pros and cons of smoking, as well as the danger that tobacco may be the actual "Gateway Drug" leading to other dangerous drugs. Thoughts about smoking...
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"John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, is a visionary and a man of faith. Using intimate interviews with Lewis and his family and deep research into the history of the civil rights movement, Meacham writes of how the activist and leader was inspired by the Bible, his mother's unbreakable spirit, his sharecropper father's tireless ambition, and his teachers in nonviolence, Reverend James Lawson...
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling, graphic novel series March comes the continuation of the life story of John Lewis and the struggles seen across the United States after the Civil Rights Movement. For John Lewis, the Civil Rights Movement as he knew it ended with the signing of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, but his struggle in the following years echo many of the same questions of civil rights and equality that are being asked today. The movement...